Broadway.com continues its look at the dressing tables of Broadway's brightest with a trip to the Lyceum Theatre, the place Tony Award winner Laura Benanti currently calls her "home away from home." After over two months (the limited engagement began previews October 22) as the leading lady of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator ...

It's something of a small miracle that Michael Cerveris is still standing. The Tony Award winner (the versatile stage star won for his performance in Assassins in 2004 and scored three additional nominations for Tommy, Sweeney Todd and Love/Musik) routinely manages to cram what seems like three days of work and activities into just 24 hours. Cerveris neighborhood-hops ...

Sporting one of the most provocative titles to hit Broadway in a while, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play officially opened on November 19, setting audiences buzzing at the Lyceum Theatre. Headed by Tony winners Laura Benanti and Michael Cerveris, the show centers on Dr. Givings, who treats overwraught Victorian women (and men) suffering from ...

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Based on the subject matter, playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Broadway debut, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, could be expected to have a tawdry, downright pornographic backstory. But as Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for 2005’s The Clean House and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, explains, the play’s inspirational spark has utterly innocent ...

It’s a portrait of a Victorian marriage. It’s a play about motherhood and the repression of women in the 1880s. It’s a comedy about the invention of a still-popular aid to achieving…pleasure. However it’s defined, Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play is shaping up to be an exciting theatrical event ...

Playing the man who invented the vibrator might sound like the set-up for a comedy routine, but Michael Cerveris is seriously excited to be starring in the Broadway premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play. And, really, why should anyone be surprised that Cerveris would accept the rather daring role of a Victorian doctor ...